Articles about 'School of the Biological Sciences'

Cambridge University has arranged for a picturesque part of the city to undergo a 24-hour blitz this week - all in the name of biodiversity.

Tropical fish alter their behaviour with an eye to the future, researchers at Cambridge have found. This is the first time such behaviour has been seen in any animals except humans.

Efforts to understand the effects of ageing on the brain have been given a major boost with the announcement of a new £5m grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to Cambridge researchers.

Seven Cambridge researchers are among the 44 new Fellows announced by the Royal Society this week.

The study of plants is blossoming in Cambridge, with new facilities, new research and soon a major new institute.

The expertise of Cambridge's new Professor of Clinical Microbiology, Sharon Peacock, is helping to drive a programme of research that will track and block routes of transmission for superbugs.

Using field experiments in Africa and a new computer model that gives them a bird's eye view of the world, Cambridge scientists have discovered how a bird decides whether or not a cuckoo has laid an egg in its nest.

Researchers in Cambridge and Japan will be working together towards a more integrated understanding of how stem cells make decisions.

Mother birds communicate with their developing chicks before they even hatch by leaving them messages in the egg, new research by a team from the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, has found.

A new multidisciplinary research programme aims to develop a single vaccine that will combat four major respiratory pathogens of pigs.